Post by STLUEE on Jun 2, 2012 12:07:40 GMT -5
At Mad World's offices, Kate and Ian were reviewing the company's projected profit margins when a messenger arrived with a package for Kate. As soon as Kate saw that the envelope contained divorce papers from Stefano, she tossed it aside on the desk. After Ian took a quick look at the papers, he urged Kate to do the same. Kate read with dismay that Stefano had included a non-compete clause, which meant that she could not work for Mad World.
Furious, Kate slammed the papers down on the desk, and vowed not to let Stefano get away with it. "I'm going to fight the fire with dynamite," she declared. Ian thought that the two of them should plan what her next move should be, but Kate wanted to take a walk to get some air. Ian discouraged that idea, since it was still pouring rain outside, but Kate was firm.
Sami was sitting at the café in Horton Square when Marlena hurried by, the hood of her raincoat pulled over her head. Sami rushed after her mother to talk to her, but Marlena claimed she had no time to talk and kept going. "Mom, stop -- it's about Will!" Sami said as she grabbed Marlena's arm, and the motion knocked Marlena's purse to the ground -- and a gun fell out.
In one deft motion, Marlena picked up her bag and slid the gun back inside before Sami could see it. Sami reiterated that she needed to talk to her mom about Will. Marlena said that they would have to talk about it later, and started to hurry on her way. "I thought Will at least was a priority for you," Sami noted loudly, and Marlena whirled around.
Marlena pointed out that Will knew where to find her if he needed her, but at that moment, she had to leave. "What could be more important than your family?" Sami demanded. "Samantha Gene, you listen to me. There is nothing in the world more important to me than family," Marlena declared firmly, adding, "Don't you dare suggest differently -- not ever!" Rolling her eyes in disbelief, Sami turned and walked away.
At Common Grounds, Lucas confiscated Will's gun, and then confronted his son. "What the hell is going on?" Lucas demanded. Will acknowledged that it looked bad, but begged Lucas to give him a chance to explain. Will claimed that the gun belonged to E.J. Lucas surprised Will by pointing out that Will no longer worked for E.J. "How do you know that?" Will asked, but Lucas only wanted to hear what Will was doing with E.J.'s gun.
Will claimed that he was just giving it back to E.J., and Lucas could verify the story with E.J. if he didn't believe Will. Lucas said that he was going to keep the gun and return it to E.J. Will tried to dissuade him, but Lucas was insistent. Frustrated, Will declared that he didn't care what Lucas did with the gun, and then stormed out.
Later, Will ran breathlessly through the rain to the alley. He paced back and forth like a caged animal behind the chain-link fence, then suddenly grew very still. He then hurried away.
At the townhouse, John gripped a pistol, feeling its heft in his hand, while he eyed a grouping of family portraits on the mantel.
At the Brady Pub, Bo checked to make sure the drop gun he carried in an ankle holster was loaded. His cell phone rang; he saw that the call was from Roman and ignored it.
At the Bradys' house, Hope musingly pressed her hand to a gun that lay on the sofa table. Next to it lay a picture that Ciara had colored. Hope stared at the picture for a long moment before throwing on a raincoat and grabbing the gun. She shoved a clip into the gun, stuck the gun in her waistband, and hurried out.
In the living room of the DiMera mansion, an armed E.J. confronted Stefano. "You cost me my wife. You cost me my family. You took away everything that had any meaning to me," E.J. declared with ice-cold anger. With a gloved hand, he loaded a round into the chamber of his handgun, asserting that he would no longer allow Stefano to get away with that. "Elvis, if you hate me that much, do it -- then put us both out of our misery," Stefano stated calmly, adding with a tone of warning, "Either you do it, or get the hell out of here forever."
E.J.'s temper flared as he blamed Stefano for Lexie's impending death, and Stefano admitted, voice shaking, that it was breaking his heart. Stefano then turned his back to E.J. and sipped his glass of brandy. E.J. leveled the gun at Stefano's head and ordered the old man to turn around so he could finish what he had to say -- or he would shoot Stefano in the back. E.J. noted that it would be fitting since Stefano had done so many things behind E.J.'s back.
"If that's what you want," Stefano said nonchalantly, without turning around. E.J. turned the gun toward the fireplace in frustration, and shot up a vase of flowers on the mantel with several rounds. Finally turning around, Stefano asked if E.J. felt better. "I'm not going to feel better until you're dead in the ground," E.J. snarled, then turned and stalked out the door to the foyer.
The instant E.J. left, Stefano suddenly heard Abe's voice from the rear doorway: "I have to say I agree with E.J. on this. There's a first time for everything." Abe, too, held a gun, which he then penised and aimed at Stefano. Still brandishing the snifter of brandy with indifference, Stefano promised that he would not put up a fight if Abe wanted to kill him.
Abe railed at Stefano for causing Lexie's illness, and became even more enraged when Stefano moved to the bar to refill his glass. Stefano stated gravely that he would never forgive himself for what he'd done. "You've hurt the people I love for the last time," Abe vowed, then placed his finger on the trigger determinedly. Stefano turned to face Abe, but then Abe lost his nerve.
Abe carefully set the gun down on the chess table, and although still clearly livid, explained that his conscience had kept him from killing Stefano, because he knew that he wouldn't have been able to face his wife or his son if he'd robbed them of Stefano. "I still might do it," Abe warned. "You could not possibly understand how much I love Alexandra," Stefano said, but Abe cut him off. "You have no idea what love is," Abe declared, then ducked his head and pushed past Stefano to the front door.
Stefano wandered into the study, and was surprised to find John waiting for him. He asked what John wanted, and John replied simply, "Justice." Stefano could tell that John had a gun in his pocket, and cheerfully urged John to go ahead and make his "little speech" about everything Stefano had done wrong.
John declared that it was too late for that; it was time to make Stefano pay for trying to kill everyone in the safe house. Stefano didn't think John would be able to sleep at night if he killed an unarmed man, but John said that he would sleep like a baby. "Then stop wasting my time and do it!" Stefano demanded.
A little later, John strode through the living room and out the terrace door, after tucking the gun into his waistband. Stefano entered the living room shortly after John had left.
Stefano then opened the front door, and found a bedraggled Hope on the doorstep. Chagrined, Stefano declared that he already knew what she was going to say, but she demanded that he listen to every word. Hope angrily explained that when she and Bo had been in the safe house, counting down the seconds until their deaths, all she'd been able to think about was how she'd miss getting to watch Ciara grow up.
Stefano pointed out that Hope had survived. Hope declared, "Being that close to death made me realize something: that as long as you're around, I will never be safe. My husband and children will never be safe." Hope then pulled a gun on Stefano. Stefano merely asked how Hope planned to explain things to her family and daughter when Hope was caught.
"I won't have to," Hope replied. Turning his back to pour another drink, Stefano pointed out that Hope would be in prison when Ciara graduated and got married. Realizing that he was right, Hope lowered her weapon. By the time Stefano turned back around, Hope had exited through the terrace door.
John returned to the townhouse, slamming the door behind him. "Damn it!" he swore as he unloaded his gun. He threw the weapon and the ammo clip across the room.
E.J. entered the Brady Pub, which was nearly empty. He looked out the window as soon as he arrived, as if to make sure no one had followed him. After finishing a glass of whisky, E.J. left. Outside, E.J. ran into Ian, who greeted him cordially. E.J. brushed past the man, grumbling, "Get the hell out of my way."
Abe returned home, out of breath and obviously reeling in disbelief from what he'd nearly done. After a few long moments, he called out to Lexie, but got no answer. He then spotted a note on the coffee table. "Tried to stay up, but my eyes wouldn't let me. Love, Lexie," Abe read aloud.
When Hope arrived back at her house, she was soaking wet, and clearly upset.
Alone in the office later, Kate fondled a small handgun, holding it pensively against her chest as she gazed out the window at the rain.
As Bo strode purposefully through Horton Square, he paused for a moment as if reconsidering what he was about to do, then hurried on his way.
At Sami's apartment, Lucas filled Sami in about finding Will with a gun and what had happened afterwards. Trying not to freak out, Sami asked where the gun was. Lucas informed her that he'd put it in the safe at the pub. Sami tried to call E.J. to confirm the story, but didn't get an answer. Lucas and Sami agreed that something had to be in the air, because everyone was acting crazy.
After Lucas and Sami compared notes, they reached the conclusion that Will and Marlena had both been acting nervous, like they'd been about to do something dangerous. Sami declared that they should go get the gun from the pub and take it to her dad at the police station, in case Will had really been planning to do something with the gun.
One by one, Will, Kate, and Bo showed up at the mansion and confronted Stefano. Kate and Bo each pulled a gun on DiMera; Kate vowed not to let Stefano control her life anymore, and Bo declared that he would administer justice on that spot for what Stefano had done. Will shouted at Stefano, "What did I ever do to you? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! But you didn't think twice about destroying my life!" Will picked up the gun from the chess table. Stefano growled at each of them, "Can you deal with the consequences of pulling that trigger? If not, get out of here, and leave me the hell alone."
When Marlena arrived a little later, Stefano was in the study. "I've been expecting you. Do you want to kill me now?" he asked. Instead of lecturing Stefano on his many sins, as he was expecting, Marlena instead calmly said that people were bullies to make themselves feel strong, when they were actually very weak -- just like Stefano
"You are at your lowest point. That's why you've gone as far as you have. But I'm here to tell you we're not going to take it from you -- none of us. There will be retribution," Marlena declared, adding that she pitied and despised Stefano. Instead of shooting him, though, she turned and left. On her way out through the darkened living room, she spied the gun on the chess table, gingerly picked it up, and eyed it curiously.
When John crept back in through the terrace door a little later, Marlena was gone, but the gun was on the chess table. John spun it around with an ungloved hand, then noticed the light from a flashlight outside on the terrace. John quickly exited the room through the rear door.
Then, Bo entered through the terrace door. He shined his light around the living room until he spied the gun. He picked it up with a bare hand, sniffed it curiously, and put it back as he continued looking around the room.
When E.J. returned a bit later, the gun was still on the chess table. E.J. poured a drink while he stared at the gun, downed the liquor, then with a bare hand, picked up the gun and went to the terrace door to investigate a noise, which turned out to be a dog barking in the distance. He then placed the gun on the piano, and strode out of the room through the foyer door.
As soon as E.J. had gone, Hope let herself in through the terrace door, armed like her husband with a flashlight. Like the others, she was not wearing gloves. As she investigated her surroundings, she saw the gun, and picked it up.
The gun was back on the piano when Kate entered a bit later. She, too, picked it up with bare hands.
As Sami and Lucas arrived at the Brady Pub, Sami was on the phone, trying to reach Will on his cell phone. While she then dialed her mom's house in case Will were there, Lucas opened the safe behind the bar. "Sami, we got a problem. The gun isn't here." Sami started to flip out. Lucas and Sami wondered if Will even knew the combination to the safe. Lucas hoped that Caroline had just moved the gun for some reason, but Sami didn't think that made sense. "Come on; let's go," Lucas announced, and dragged Sami out of the pub by the hand.
While the townhouse, the Mad World offices, the Bradys' house, and the Carvers' living room all stood dark and empty, Stefano gazed sadly at a picture of Lexie in his study. He apologized profusely to it, then kissed the picture and set it on a table. As Stefano poured himself a glass of grappa, he thought he heard a noise in the hallway, but no one was there. He then put on a recording from Pagliacci, and sat in the wingback chair before the fire as he mouthed the words along with the tenor.
A mysterious figure let him (or herself) into the DiMera mansion with a gloved hand. He or she picked up the gun from the piano, then walked through the darkened house until they reached the study, where Stefano listened, eyes closed, a hand over his heart, as the aria reached a crescendo. The person leveled the gun at Stefano, and a shot rang out.
Furious, Kate slammed the papers down on the desk, and vowed not to let Stefano get away with it. "I'm going to fight the fire with dynamite," she declared. Ian thought that the two of them should plan what her next move should be, but Kate wanted to take a walk to get some air. Ian discouraged that idea, since it was still pouring rain outside, but Kate was firm.
Sami was sitting at the café in Horton Square when Marlena hurried by, the hood of her raincoat pulled over her head. Sami rushed after her mother to talk to her, but Marlena claimed she had no time to talk and kept going. "Mom, stop -- it's about Will!" Sami said as she grabbed Marlena's arm, and the motion knocked Marlena's purse to the ground -- and a gun fell out.
In one deft motion, Marlena picked up her bag and slid the gun back inside before Sami could see it. Sami reiterated that she needed to talk to her mom about Will. Marlena said that they would have to talk about it later, and started to hurry on her way. "I thought Will at least was a priority for you," Sami noted loudly, and Marlena whirled around.
Marlena pointed out that Will knew where to find her if he needed her, but at that moment, she had to leave. "What could be more important than your family?" Sami demanded. "Samantha Gene, you listen to me. There is nothing in the world more important to me than family," Marlena declared firmly, adding, "Don't you dare suggest differently -- not ever!" Rolling her eyes in disbelief, Sami turned and walked away.
At Common Grounds, Lucas confiscated Will's gun, and then confronted his son. "What the hell is going on?" Lucas demanded. Will acknowledged that it looked bad, but begged Lucas to give him a chance to explain. Will claimed that the gun belonged to E.J. Lucas surprised Will by pointing out that Will no longer worked for E.J. "How do you know that?" Will asked, but Lucas only wanted to hear what Will was doing with E.J.'s gun.
Will claimed that he was just giving it back to E.J., and Lucas could verify the story with E.J. if he didn't believe Will. Lucas said that he was going to keep the gun and return it to E.J. Will tried to dissuade him, but Lucas was insistent. Frustrated, Will declared that he didn't care what Lucas did with the gun, and then stormed out.
Later, Will ran breathlessly through the rain to the alley. He paced back and forth like a caged animal behind the chain-link fence, then suddenly grew very still. He then hurried away.
At the townhouse, John gripped a pistol, feeling its heft in his hand, while he eyed a grouping of family portraits on the mantel.
At the Brady Pub, Bo checked to make sure the drop gun he carried in an ankle holster was loaded. His cell phone rang; he saw that the call was from Roman and ignored it.
At the Bradys' house, Hope musingly pressed her hand to a gun that lay on the sofa table. Next to it lay a picture that Ciara had colored. Hope stared at the picture for a long moment before throwing on a raincoat and grabbing the gun. She shoved a clip into the gun, stuck the gun in her waistband, and hurried out.
In the living room of the DiMera mansion, an armed E.J. confronted Stefano. "You cost me my wife. You cost me my family. You took away everything that had any meaning to me," E.J. declared with ice-cold anger. With a gloved hand, he loaded a round into the chamber of his handgun, asserting that he would no longer allow Stefano to get away with that. "Elvis, if you hate me that much, do it -- then put us both out of our misery," Stefano stated calmly, adding with a tone of warning, "Either you do it, or get the hell out of here forever."
E.J.'s temper flared as he blamed Stefano for Lexie's impending death, and Stefano admitted, voice shaking, that it was breaking his heart. Stefano then turned his back to E.J. and sipped his glass of brandy. E.J. leveled the gun at Stefano's head and ordered the old man to turn around so he could finish what he had to say -- or he would shoot Stefano in the back. E.J. noted that it would be fitting since Stefano had done so many things behind E.J.'s back.
"If that's what you want," Stefano said nonchalantly, without turning around. E.J. turned the gun toward the fireplace in frustration, and shot up a vase of flowers on the mantel with several rounds. Finally turning around, Stefano asked if E.J. felt better. "I'm not going to feel better until you're dead in the ground," E.J. snarled, then turned and stalked out the door to the foyer.
The instant E.J. left, Stefano suddenly heard Abe's voice from the rear doorway: "I have to say I agree with E.J. on this. There's a first time for everything." Abe, too, held a gun, which he then penised and aimed at Stefano. Still brandishing the snifter of brandy with indifference, Stefano promised that he would not put up a fight if Abe wanted to kill him.
Abe railed at Stefano for causing Lexie's illness, and became even more enraged when Stefano moved to the bar to refill his glass. Stefano stated gravely that he would never forgive himself for what he'd done. "You've hurt the people I love for the last time," Abe vowed, then placed his finger on the trigger determinedly. Stefano turned to face Abe, but then Abe lost his nerve.
Abe carefully set the gun down on the chess table, and although still clearly livid, explained that his conscience had kept him from killing Stefano, because he knew that he wouldn't have been able to face his wife or his son if he'd robbed them of Stefano. "I still might do it," Abe warned. "You could not possibly understand how much I love Alexandra," Stefano said, but Abe cut him off. "You have no idea what love is," Abe declared, then ducked his head and pushed past Stefano to the front door.
Stefano wandered into the study, and was surprised to find John waiting for him. He asked what John wanted, and John replied simply, "Justice." Stefano could tell that John had a gun in his pocket, and cheerfully urged John to go ahead and make his "little speech" about everything Stefano had done wrong.
John declared that it was too late for that; it was time to make Stefano pay for trying to kill everyone in the safe house. Stefano didn't think John would be able to sleep at night if he killed an unarmed man, but John said that he would sleep like a baby. "Then stop wasting my time and do it!" Stefano demanded.
A little later, John strode through the living room and out the terrace door, after tucking the gun into his waistband. Stefano entered the living room shortly after John had left.
Stefano then opened the front door, and found a bedraggled Hope on the doorstep. Chagrined, Stefano declared that he already knew what she was going to say, but she demanded that he listen to every word. Hope angrily explained that when she and Bo had been in the safe house, counting down the seconds until their deaths, all she'd been able to think about was how she'd miss getting to watch Ciara grow up.
Stefano pointed out that Hope had survived. Hope declared, "Being that close to death made me realize something: that as long as you're around, I will never be safe. My husband and children will never be safe." Hope then pulled a gun on Stefano. Stefano merely asked how Hope planned to explain things to her family and daughter when Hope was caught.
"I won't have to," Hope replied. Turning his back to pour another drink, Stefano pointed out that Hope would be in prison when Ciara graduated and got married. Realizing that he was right, Hope lowered her weapon. By the time Stefano turned back around, Hope had exited through the terrace door.
John returned to the townhouse, slamming the door behind him. "Damn it!" he swore as he unloaded his gun. He threw the weapon and the ammo clip across the room.
E.J. entered the Brady Pub, which was nearly empty. He looked out the window as soon as he arrived, as if to make sure no one had followed him. After finishing a glass of whisky, E.J. left. Outside, E.J. ran into Ian, who greeted him cordially. E.J. brushed past the man, grumbling, "Get the hell out of my way."
Abe returned home, out of breath and obviously reeling in disbelief from what he'd nearly done. After a few long moments, he called out to Lexie, but got no answer. He then spotted a note on the coffee table. "Tried to stay up, but my eyes wouldn't let me. Love, Lexie," Abe read aloud.
When Hope arrived back at her house, she was soaking wet, and clearly upset.
Alone in the office later, Kate fondled a small handgun, holding it pensively against her chest as she gazed out the window at the rain.
As Bo strode purposefully through Horton Square, he paused for a moment as if reconsidering what he was about to do, then hurried on his way.
At Sami's apartment, Lucas filled Sami in about finding Will with a gun and what had happened afterwards. Trying not to freak out, Sami asked where the gun was. Lucas informed her that he'd put it in the safe at the pub. Sami tried to call E.J. to confirm the story, but didn't get an answer. Lucas and Sami agreed that something had to be in the air, because everyone was acting crazy.
After Lucas and Sami compared notes, they reached the conclusion that Will and Marlena had both been acting nervous, like they'd been about to do something dangerous. Sami declared that they should go get the gun from the pub and take it to her dad at the police station, in case Will had really been planning to do something with the gun.
One by one, Will, Kate, and Bo showed up at the mansion and confronted Stefano. Kate and Bo each pulled a gun on DiMera; Kate vowed not to let Stefano control her life anymore, and Bo declared that he would administer justice on that spot for what Stefano had done. Will shouted at Stefano, "What did I ever do to you? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! But you didn't think twice about destroying my life!" Will picked up the gun from the chess table. Stefano growled at each of them, "Can you deal with the consequences of pulling that trigger? If not, get out of here, and leave me the hell alone."
When Marlena arrived a little later, Stefano was in the study. "I've been expecting you. Do you want to kill me now?" he asked. Instead of lecturing Stefano on his many sins, as he was expecting, Marlena instead calmly said that people were bullies to make themselves feel strong, when they were actually very weak -- just like Stefano
"You are at your lowest point. That's why you've gone as far as you have. But I'm here to tell you we're not going to take it from you -- none of us. There will be retribution," Marlena declared, adding that she pitied and despised Stefano. Instead of shooting him, though, she turned and left. On her way out through the darkened living room, she spied the gun on the chess table, gingerly picked it up, and eyed it curiously.
When John crept back in through the terrace door a little later, Marlena was gone, but the gun was on the chess table. John spun it around with an ungloved hand, then noticed the light from a flashlight outside on the terrace. John quickly exited the room through the rear door.
Then, Bo entered through the terrace door. He shined his light around the living room until he spied the gun. He picked it up with a bare hand, sniffed it curiously, and put it back as he continued looking around the room.
When E.J. returned a bit later, the gun was still on the chess table. E.J. poured a drink while he stared at the gun, downed the liquor, then with a bare hand, picked up the gun and went to the terrace door to investigate a noise, which turned out to be a dog barking in the distance. He then placed the gun on the piano, and strode out of the room through the foyer door.
As soon as E.J. had gone, Hope let herself in through the terrace door, armed like her husband with a flashlight. Like the others, she was not wearing gloves. As she investigated her surroundings, she saw the gun, and picked it up.
The gun was back on the piano when Kate entered a bit later. She, too, picked it up with bare hands.
As Sami and Lucas arrived at the Brady Pub, Sami was on the phone, trying to reach Will on his cell phone. While she then dialed her mom's house in case Will were there, Lucas opened the safe behind the bar. "Sami, we got a problem. The gun isn't here." Sami started to flip out. Lucas and Sami wondered if Will even knew the combination to the safe. Lucas hoped that Caroline had just moved the gun for some reason, but Sami didn't think that made sense. "Come on; let's go," Lucas announced, and dragged Sami out of the pub by the hand.
While the townhouse, the Mad World offices, the Bradys' house, and the Carvers' living room all stood dark and empty, Stefano gazed sadly at a picture of Lexie in his study. He apologized profusely to it, then kissed the picture and set it on a table. As Stefano poured himself a glass of grappa, he thought he heard a noise in the hallway, but no one was there. He then put on a recording from Pagliacci, and sat in the wingback chair before the fire as he mouthed the words along with the tenor.
A mysterious figure let him (or herself) into the DiMera mansion with a gloved hand. He or she picked up the gun from the piano, then walked through the darkened house until they reached the study, where Stefano listened, eyes closed, a hand over his heart, as the aria reached a crescendo. The person leveled the gun at Stefano, and a shot rang out.
